Fr.
Richard John Neuhaus
R.I.P.
1936 to January 8, 2009
In
Public terms, he had 2 huge
ideas that changed America:
- the idea of the Supreme
Court's tendency since 1947
to put
No Establishment and the
Free exercise of Religion against
each other, seemed to him
fundamentally wrong-headed
and a basic misreading of
the Constitution. The whole
point of not having a government-established
church is to create the
free space for the free
exercise of belief.
- the idea that the pro-life
movement is the natural,
moral successor to the civil
rights movement because
the moral truths, on which
the pro-life movement is
based, are the same moral
truths that inform the struggle
for civil rights.
George
Weigel
Catholic Author and Theologian |
